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Barrie craft brewery brings home the gold

(STAFF) — Barrie's own Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery won gold at the 2015 Canadian Brewing Awards (CBA) in Niagara Falls.The company won the Wood/Barrel Aged Strong Beer category last weekend with its El Toro Bravo Imperial Dark Rye Ale, a stout-hearted ale aged on Spanish cedar, the same fragrant exotic wood traditionally used for cigar boxes and humidors.

It's the second consecutive year Flying Monkeys has won at the awards.

In 2014, it brought home two gold medals from the Canadian Brewing Awards in Fredericton, NB, for Shoulders of Giants Imperial IPA (in the Imperial India Pale Ale category) and Chocolate Manifesto Triple Chocolate Milk Stout (in the experimental beer category).

“The CBAs are Canada’s most prestigious national brewing industry event and the competition is definitely growing, with all the incredible new craft breweries entering the scene," said Peter Chiodo, Flying Monkeys founder and artisan brewer, adding the CBAs brought together more 250 breweries of all sizes with more than 1,000 beers from across the country to compete this year.READ MORE